The Simpsons: Tapped Out. iOS/Android?

Hey guys, long time no type.

So I'm not that busy or preoccupied as I type this, so I figured I'd type a little blog post up while I was  thinking about it  inspiration; read a great post my best friend Ari wrote. Enjoy, feedback appreciated!

Simpsons Tapped Out is a new(ish) game set in the town Springfield, which we should all know is home to the Simpsons. The Simpsons is a show that I've always grown up with. I've watched it for as long as I can remember, my Mum always hated it but thanks to my dad and my brother and sister also loving the show, we always won when we wanted to watch it.

The game starts with a cinematic of Homer asleep at work (hardly a novelty) and the technical thingy-ma-bobs he is regularly surrounded by are beeping and sirens are screaming all over, unable to hear this Homers ill practice causes the power plant and the whole of Springfield to blow up. Causing all the buildings, businesses and residents to be destroyed or lost (buildings destroyed and residents lost, just to clarify)

With only Lisa and Homer left in Springfield it is you, the players, job to rebuild Springfield. When you raise enough money to build a new lot you will unlock and find more characters/residents which are connected to the building. With each new lot you place and build you will be able to use its character to do activities around your ever expanding town to gain more XP to level up, thus unlocking more places to build. And more money, to pay for new places.

You can add friends who also play the game and are then able to visit their Springfield, where you are given the option to rake three benefits a day, each will give you money and XP. So the more friends you have the more rewards you get.

Totally free to play game and super addictive, it's 8/10 from me guys.

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THIS IS NOT THE END FOR ME!!!

Hello people of the internet, I have dabbled in writing short reviews on a variety of video games, and I have thoroughly enjoyed playing the different games and then reliving the gaming experience I had by writing the review. Unfortunately not long after finding I actually liked scribbling a few notes for other people people to enjoy I found myself working more hours and having less money. Sadly anything driving/car related are not cheap, thus leaving me with no money to buy many new games. So for this I'm really sorry.

But I have recently decided that work can no longer prioritise my life and I am making more time for people and myself, kick starting with a trip to Leeds this weekend for the ThoughtBubble convention with my best pal Ari (check out her awesome blog, link at the bottom). And a lot of pretty exciting stuff has been going on for me over the last few weeks, which I plan on blogging about, so watch this space, I won't be gone for long.

So people of the internet I bid you farewell for now.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Xbox 360!

Hey guys, Lawrence here once more. So I've been really busy recently, my friend Ari has been staying with me for a few days so I haven't done much in the way of gaming, but totally worth it to see my friend. But now I'm alone again and decided to progress a little further in my Skyrim file. So heres my review, hope you guys enjoy.


Skyrim.



Uhm don't know why there is this huge gap between the image and this text? What the fuck Blogger? But anyway, Skyrim is an open world based role playing game, not unlike games like Grand Theft Auto and Fallout, and I believe is set 200 years after the previous Elder scrolls games (I think there are 4 before this).
As I just wrote Skyrim is an open world game, which is totally bad ass, its a world filled with challenges, interesting people, strange creatures and a whole lot of cool shit to find! Not only is it a fun game to play, and I don't really rate a game based on its graphics, but Skyrim's graphics are pretty good, which for an open world role playing game does make it a lot more enjoyable. although getting up rocks and mountains is difficult, I suggest jumping side to side to weave up the rock or mountain, it usually works for me.

The game is set in the continent of Tamriel, where you are in the northern realm, Skyrim. Which is populated by mostly Nords. This game focusses a lot more around dragons, more so than the previous games anyway, you can slay them and get some pretty valuable remains, and eventually tame a dragon. Very fun.

So to be honest guys, I really prefer the side missions of this game, the main storyline to this game is really just "same shit different time period!?" but the side missions is fun, I particularly enjoy the Dark Brotherhood missions, why? A "little girl" named Babette.

Babette.

Although Babette may look like a sweet little 10 year old girl, but she is not she's a 300 year old vampire who works as an assassin for the Dark Brotherhood. Here's her lure...

"I'm just a little girl! The Dark Brotherhood killed my mama and papa, and then they took me captive! Please, please help me! Rather convincing, don't you think? In truth, I'm no more a little girl than you are. I was once, of course. Three hundred years ago. Vampirism tends to keep one remarkably... fresh."

Seriously thought I'd have to play the whole game again just to find that quote, but fortunately she repeats it.

But yeah, she's cool! Anyway I'm going to go to sleep because it is 1:29am and I need to be up at 6:30am, so sorry for the shitty short review, I'll try get better with that.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, is going to get a 4/10 rating from me. I do like the game but i just found the side missions more stimulating, where I didn't in Fallout 3 (and the gameplay in these two games is very similar). So give it a go guys. Become a Nord today. Bye!

Gone Home. PC!

Hey guys, hope you are all good, this is going to be my review on a new game I got from Steam called Gone Home. Enjoy!

Gone Home

Okay so apparently the feeling of going to the house you grew up in and going into your old bedroom is a really weird feeling and kind of a nostalgic one too. I still live with my parents so I don't know. but that's kind of the basis of this game, Gone Home. I wasn't just being a rambler. You play as a young girl, I don't think it mentions her age, I'd say about 19 or 20 maybe, well she's been travelling around Europe and she's coming home to see her mum, dad and little sister. But when getting to the front door the house is locked up and empty with an mysterious letter on the door addressed to you from your sister, Sam, basically telling you not to worry and that she is fine and one day she will see her again. when you find the key and get into the house you're welcomed by a sort of colonial decorated entrance, the house is obviously more of a mansion. There is a definite spooky feel to the house, the entire time through you're expecting something to jump out, but I won't give anything away. As you explore through the house and each individual room you find diary entries from your sister which begin to explain why the house is empty and what has happened to your family, thus the story evolving.


Family Portrait.

 

Along with diary entries there are things like photos, report cards and little notes and letters scattered around the house, each of which helps you to understand the story more. And if you enjoy games where you can just explore someone's house and rummaging around other people belongings then I'd say try this game, it is really fun and the ending is good too. It's a little pricey, its £19.99 on Steam, but there's probably a free download somewhere. I'll give this game 7/10, its a lot of money for a game which is just mostly exploring.

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The Sims 4. Soon to be PC! 2014 Release!

Hello fellow gamers, bloggers and readers. A quick sorry again for the lacking of reviews, I've just been really struggling for time recently, I've just been so busy with work and everything. But I have just invested in a new PC and its really nice and its a really good system and I cant wait to get it properly set up so hopefully that wont take long, I'll probably write a little post about it when its finished, just in case you were thinking of buying one. You gotta know your stuff yo!
Anyway I'm writing today about the new information we've been given about The Sims 4, like, oh my God I am so excited for The Sims 4. The Sims series has always been a favourite for me as you may know if you've read my review on The Sims 3 which I'll link at the bottom.

The Sims 4 first look.

So the teaser video introduces with a producer of TS4 called Lindsey Pearson and she narrates the video which shows us a little bit of create a Sim, building a house, gameplay and a few new features. Which all look very exciting.

The teaser starts with the create a Sim, which is the most exciting feature for me because it just looks so slick. Previously in TS2 and TS3 we've had to use sliders to adjust Sims, for facial features and body size, but as the teaser video shows us in TS4 all we'll have to do is click on the area of the Sim that wants to be made bigger or smaller, you just click, push and pull, it looks very detailed, even the size of the pupils can be adjusted. The feature of choosing your Sims voice and personality is still included in the game, but the teaser doesn't really give much away on how the personality will be conjured. In TS2 you could choose "turn-on's" and "turn-off's" and in TS3 you choose traits to individualise each Sim, so I don't know how they will incorporate choosing personalities in TS4. Another cool looking feature is how you get to choose the way your Sim moves, choosing from a variety of mannerisms and walks.

The creation and design of building a house looks interesting, it appears you get a standard square room which you can move around and push and pull into any shape, and height of rooms, now that is a good feature to me, like in my house I have pretty high ceilings downstairs, so I imagine a lot of peoples hoses do, its small features like this that are really getting The Sims series into a really realistic Simulation game. No mention of diagonal walls but I suppose that's no big deal, you can also just pick up a room and move it and all the furniture and décor will move with it, can't think of a time where I've needed to do that but I'll probably find a reason to utilise the feature, just because I can. There was no mention of the furnishing of your home, I did read somewhere that it will be an Ikea like catalogue. Shame I don't really like Ikea. God damn flat pack!

New emotional states have been introduced into the game, which again we aren't completely unfamiliar with e.g. being "heart broken", or "having a blast" but it appears to be much more detailed and specific in TS4, if you're doing well when picking someone up your Sim may become confident and will better succeed with flirting, or if you Sims is angry they will have to do something to reduce the anger, like punching a punch bag.

So in conclusion TS4 looks like its going to be an amazing game not unlike its prior releases , The Sims has always been a top selling game. I hope you enjoyed this review on the new Teaser video, hopefully we will be kept informed as more developments in the game are made.

Check out the teaser for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjPPjU8OARg

Sorry for the lack of pictures, but I couldn't really find any good ones that were worth  putting up, and quick reminder, TS3 Into the Future is released in only 60 days from today! So excited for this game, like we've seen pets and seasons and holiday expansion packs so many times, this one looks totally fresh and honestly a nice change, here's the link, its available to pre-order for £29.99: http://thesims.com/en_GB/the-sims-3-into-the-future

So I can't actually rate this game yet because I obviously haven't played it yet. but I predict it will achieve 10/10. Oh and here's the link to my review on The Sims 3: http://justplayingsomegames.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-sims-3-pc-lots-of-lawrences.html?spref=tw

Bye guys, have a great day. SCHMOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!

Euro Truck Simulator. PC!

Yo. Sorry for the incredible lack of uploads I've been so busy I just haven't had time to game that much, my friend Ari (who I mentioned in my RE5 review) stayed at mine for a couple of nights so I was good busy, but I have had time to play a bit of Euro Truck Simulator, and as I mentioned in my Steam Summer Sale review, I am going to try and review all the games I bought. EUT is a very basic game, including the graphics and gameplay. Its totally easy to follow and the controls are simple.

Euro Truck Simulator.

Basically the game starts you off in a showroom for trucks, I think there's two different ones you can afford to start with. Bothe equally shitty. But I suppose it takes you from A - B. Another thing I didn't like was if you crash the truck like twice it gets totally battered. Really annoying. And then it starts to really crawl along the road, top speed of about 20 miles per hour. which for motorways is obviously not good, and the trucks actual top speed (that I achieved) was about 70 miles per hour and if this truck was real that would have literally have been foot on the floor!

Truckin' along.

The controls for the game aren't difficult, but the can be a little confusing as there is a lot of them, but I opted to use a steering wheel and pedals, as I have finally got some. YAY! Although driving with a toy steering wheel is very different to driving an actual car, mostly because there are no indicators, gears, clutch pedal or break pedal, what acts as the break pedal is actually a reverse pedal, which in an actual car is just the accelerator pedal in reverse. But obviously that makes it easier than driving a car.             


Steering Wheel.

When driving the car is mastered its pretty straight forward, choose some cargo, choose where you want the cargo to go and then deliver the cargo. you start in the U.K but the more deliveries you successfully make the more experience, money and locations you will receive. Experience (and rewards) will help you to unlock more locations over the U.K and eventually over Europe.

This is a goodish game, but it is the first game I've reviewed that I probably wouldn't recommend. So I'm going to give it a score of 4/10. I have given it some clearance because it is a little addictive, but I just raged the whole time because the second you smack the truck into a bollard or something it breaks the fuck down and you move so slow and it pissed me off! so yeah. Low score.
If for some reason you would still like to play this game here is the link to it on Steam, its only £5.99 (there's a reason its so cheap):
http://store.steampowered.com/app/232010/
And here's a link to the disc on Amazon, same price at £5.99, but you have to pay £2.03 delivery:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B002EEP32K/ref=sr_1_2_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1375903691&sr=8-2&keywords=eurotruck&condition=new

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Steam Summer Sale!

Hey guys, hope you're good. HOPE YOU'RE AWESOME!!! I know I am, and why? Because Steam have just had there Summer Sale, its still on actually so if you haven't checked it out you should get over there and grab the bargains while they're there, the offers don't last for long, its like 8 hours for most things, and then they have like a daily deal, but I'm sure most of you fellow gamers have checked it out. So in this review I'm going to kind of highlight a few of the games I bought, who knows you might even see something you like the look of. Enjoy.

Just read it finished on the 22nd, oops sorry if I got your hopes up :'( *Sorry Lawrence*

Steam Sale we love you.

I had never used Steam before this summer, I've always been a preferred console gamer and less interested in PC gaming, oh how times change, I fucking love PC gaming now. So when I saw how good this sale was my wallet practically screamed "SPEND MONEY" so I obliged. but I got so cracking bargains.

Euro Truck Simulator.
This game is so addictive, I originally bought it because it was cheap and I was just filling my basket, but its actually very good, simple graphics but quite good. basically delivering one lorry cargo of merchandise from one destination in Europe to another, stay in one country or go over seas. Like I said its a simple game but its so fun, definitely one to recommend,
A well deserved rating of 6/10

Fallout: New Vegas.
I am yet too play New Vegas as I am still playing through Fallout 3 (review to come soon) but it was only £2.49, how could I not? I've really been enjoying F3 though but I wont go into detail because I want to eventually review it separately.

Tomb Raider.
So I'm really enjoying playing this game, the graphics are really good and the story line is enticing. I never want to turn it off. And I really want to talk about it but I want to review this separately when I've finished it like I plan to with Fallout. Sorry guys.

Fallout: New Vegas and Remember Me.

I did buy a lot of games from the Steam Summer Sale, but I hope to have played them all in time for next years sale. If you know of any good games that you would like me to review or do some game play of on YouTube let me know in the comments, I promise I'll do it. Apologies for the short post guys. Have a good day. BYYYYYEEEEE!!!!!